Sovereign AI

OpenDunes is the only AI API gateway designed for the Algerian market. This isn't a generic cloud product geo-restricted to Algeria — it's built from the ground up around the regulatory, financial, and technical realities of running AI in the country.

Data residency#

All OpenDunes infrastructure runs on servers physically located in Algeria. Your prompts, completions, user data, and logs never leave Algerian jurisdiction. This is not a configuration option — it is the architecture.

For organisations in regulated industries — banking, insurance, healthcare, public administration — this eliminates the cross-border data transfer problem that has historically blocked adoption of cloud AI services. You can deploy production AI workloads and answer your DPO's questions with a single sentence: the data stays in Algeria.

Law 18-07 compliance#

Algeria's Law 18-07 on the protection of personal data governs how organisations collect, process, and retain personal information. OpenDunes implements compliance at the infrastructure layer so you don't have to build it yourself:

PII redaction pipeline#

Before any request content is written to storage, it passes through an automated PII redaction pipeline. Detected patterns — names, phone numbers, national identity numbers, email addresses, financial account numbers — are replaced with type-annotated placeholders (e.g. [PHONE_DZ], [EMAIL]) in the stored record. The model receives the original content; only the stored log is redacted.

Zero Data Retention mode#

For workloads where even redacted storage is unacceptable, enable Zero Data Retention on an API key. No request or response content is persisted anywhere in the pipeline — only the minimal billing metadata (token counts, cost, timestamp) is kept for ledger integrity.

Audit trails#

Every request generates an immutable audit record with a UUID-v7 identifier, timestamp, model, token counts, and cost. These records are append-only and can be exported for compliance reporting. No record can be modified or deleted.

Algerian Dinar payments#

There are no foreign cards, no USD invoices, and no currency conversion at checkout. You deposit directly in Algerian Dinars (DA) using the payment methods Algerians actually have:

• CIB card (Interbancaire)
• Edahabia (Algeria Post)

Deposits go through SATIM, Algeria's national interbank payment network. The deposit process is the same as paying a utility bill online — no foreign account, no exchange rate risk, no blocked transactions.

Your balance, your usage, and your invoices are all in DA. The model catalog shows DA pricing as input/output cost per million tokens, so you can calculate your spend without mental arithmetic.

No dependency on foreign infrastructure#

A common failure mode for Algerian developers using global AI APIs: the product works fine in development, then payment fails in production because the international card transaction is blocked or unavailable. OpenDunes removes that dependency entirely. The payment flow, the API gateway, and the data storage all run on infrastructure that works reliably in Algeria.

What this means in practice#

Building on sovereign infrastructure#

If you're building a product for an Algerian business — a chatbot, a document processing pipeline, a customer support system — you can represent data sovereignty to your clients as a feature, not a footnote. The fact that the AI infrastructure is Algerian, compliant with Algerian law, and paid for in Algerian currency is a real commercial differentiator in the local market.

Questions about compliance documentation, data processing agreements, or Law 18-07 technical measures? Contact support@opendunes.com.